Iris's client, one of the world's largest multinational Investment banking and financial services corporation is looking to hire a Business System Analyst - Reference Data (Capital Markets) for a Long-Term opportunity

Job Title: Business System Analyst - Reference Data (Capital Markets)

Work Location: Toronto, Canada or New York, USA (Hybrid Onsite - 3 day's a week)

About the Role

We're seeking a detail-oriented Business System Analyst with deep Capital Markets reference-data expertise. In this role, you will partner with front-office, data governance and technology teams to define, source, curate and deliver critical reference data (e.g. instrument identifiers, legal entity data, product hierarchies) for trading, risk, compliance and reporting systems. Your combination of domain knowledge and technical acumen will ensure our reference-data pipeline is accurate, complete and scalable.

Key Responsibilities:

Business Analysis & Requirements Gathering:

• Work with Operations, Support, FO and BO (Risk, Finance, Compliance) IT teams to elicit and document reference data requirements and system enhancements.
• Map and define reference-data elements (e.g. ISIN, CUSIP, SEDOL, LEI, product classifications) across asset classes (equities, fixed income, derivatives).

Data Triage & Curation:

• Identify and evaluate external vendors, market data feeds and proprietary sources for reference data.
• Implement data validation checks, exception handling processes and reconciliation routines.
• Manage inventory of data issues, triage issues, work out tactical and strategic remediation with various teams.

Solution Design & Implementation:

• Translate business needs into functional and technical specifications for IT delivery.
• Prepare architectural and functional flows clearly depicting systems dependencies.
• Support system testing: develop test scripts, execute UAT, and track defects through resolution.

Data Governance & Quality:

• Enforce data governance policies: stewardship, lineage documentation, data quality metrics (completeness, accuracy, consistency, timeliness).
• Monitor key data quality indicators and drive continuous improvements in remediation workflows.

Stakeholder Communication & Reporting:

• Produce clear status reports, data catalog updates and impact assessments for senior management.
• Conduct training sessions and prepare user guides on reference data standards and tools.

Required Qualifications

Capital Markets Domain Expertise:

• 3+ years working with reference-data domains in trading, risk or back-office functions.
• Strong understanding of Securities data feed from Bloomberg, LSEG (Reuters).
• Strong understanding of various Asset classes and important attributes associated with each asset classes.
• Good understanding of instrument identifiers (ISIN, CUSIP, FIGI, RIC), entity identifiers (LEI) and product taxonomy.

Technical Skills:

• Proficient in SQL and relational data modeling concepts
• Familiarity with using APIs and JSON, XML structures
• Familiarity with MDM and data governance platforms (e.g. Collibra, Data Hub) and metadata management, the best practices.
• Excellent Excel skills to perform various data analysis, triage recons and build summaries.

Analytical & Communication Skills:

• Strong problem-solving mindset and keen attention to detail.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills: able to translate between business and technical audiences.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in finance, Computer Science, Information Systems or related field.